TiVo Is To TV As Slicing Was To Bread
from the can't-live-without-it dept
I’ll admit that I still don’t have a TiVo. However, most of my friends have it, or something like it – so I live vicariously through their TiVos (“hey, so, uh, did you happen to TiVo West Wing?”). A TV critic from the SF Chronicle has his column raving about how the TiVo completely changes television. Most people who have one seem to feel the same way. However, the best part comes right at the beginning of the article when he was over at a friend’s house watching the World Series. He was going to get a drink and asked his friend to “pause” the game, which elicited blank stares. It took a moment to remember that not everyone has a TiVo…